Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just installed R 2.11.1 on my PC, which runs a Windows XP Home.
>
> The installation is successful, however, when I double click on the
> R icon, I get the following error message:
>
> R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close.
> We are sorry for the inconvenience.
>

The error occurs in msvcrt.dll, a Microsoft dll. It happened after a
call from one of the R dlls, setting up the GUI.

I don't really know what to suggest to fix this, other than the usual
things: try running R with the --vanilla command line argument, try
shutting down everything else on your system, etc.